DJ Grooves is a major character in A Hat in Time. He appears in Battle of the Birds as one of the two birds running Dead Bird Studio, the other being his rival, The Conductor. Having a rivalry with the Conductor, he's one of the two birds that Hat Kid can help win the competition for the Annual Bird Movie Awards.
If Hat Kid helps him win then Hat Kid fights him in a boss fight. If Hat Kid helps The Conductor win she will fight The Conductor in a boss fight, DJ Grooves will show up to the ceremony, saying that he will find a way to defuse the bomb placed on Hat Kid in the middle of the boss fight. After Hat Kid lands a few more hits on The Conductor, DJ Grooves will hold out a huge pair of scissors to defuse the bomb with. When running over to him, he will cut the fuse off, thus making the bomb disappear.
Name: DJ Grooves, actual name unknown
Origin: A Hat in Time
Assigned Gender: Male
Age: Unknown, possibly in his late 50s (Around the same age as the Conductor as shown in Conductor and Grooves' Big Dreams Storybook)
Classification: Boss
Species: Bird
Occupation: Movie Director
Status: Alive
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Depending on the route chosen DJ Grooves will either assist Hat Kid in her battle against The Conductor or be the one to try to battle and kill her)
Key: Regular | EX Version
Grade: B | A
Tier: 9-B, Higher with Bomb | At least 9-B, Higher with Bomb.
Cardinality: Finite
Dimensionality: 3-D
Power Source: Has a Cosmic level power source with Time Pieces (The time pieces can rewrite the timeline into an alternate reality. Mustache Girl with its powers created a realm with stars and nebulae), Higher Power Source with Death Wish Time Pieces (Can fight the death wish variants of the bosses who are amplified by the Death Wish Time Pieces which can create alternate realms with countless stars like the Twilight Bell which is meant to be the Twilight Realm, which is an alternate universe)
Attack Potency: Wall level (Potency) (Can harm Hat Kid), Higher with Bomb (Plants a bomb on Hat Kid that one-shots her if the timer runs out) | At least Wall level (Potency) (Amplified by the Death Wish Time Pieces, which are stronger than the regular time pieces), Higher with Bomb
Durability: Wall level, Higher with shield (Mustache Girl used a forcefield that was created by the Time Pieces) | At least Wall level, Higher with shield
Striking Strength: Wall Class (Potency) | At least Wall Class (Potency)
Lifting Strength: Unknown: True Class | Unknown: True Class
Travel Speed: At least Supersonic (Moved so fast that Hat Kid saw multiple knives at once. His diving attacks are hard for Hat Kid to outrun) | At least Supersonic
Attack Speed: At least Supersonic (Can tag Hat Kid. Amped by time pieces which serve as the fuel for Hat Kid's ship allowing it to move at a resting speed through space. Could tag Hat Kid's ship before it could take off) | At least Supersonic
Reaction Speed: At least Supersonic | At least Supersonic
Stamina: Very High
Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Knives, Dozens of meters with shockwaves, Universal with Time Pieces (Can manipulate, stop, and slow down time on a universal scale), Multi-Universal with Dimensional Travel (Hat Kid can use the time pieces to travel from out of time rifts back into the main reality)
Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence
Knowledge: Expert level (Competent movie director and with props which he can use in combat, very skilled with knives)
